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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Keith Richards. Of all the alternative tunings in use today, open G must be a contender for ‘most popular’. But before we continue ...

How it works: Swap the lower four strings for high‑octave counterparts from a 12‑string set, leaving the top two strings the same. Famous users: Keith Richards, David Gilmour, and Taylor Swift have ...

Justin Pot is a freelance journalist who helps people get more out of technology. If you'd rather not use this automated tuning, or find that it doesn't quite work, you can tap a string to tune it ...